crontab or crond

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 12:22 PM 6/28/2004, Cristiano Soares wrote:
>Hi all. im having some problems trying to use crontab or cron.d. I want to 
>run a shell script-1 from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm, and then run the shell 
>script-2 from 11:01pm to 6:59 pm. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks 
>a lot.

Scripts don't run for four hours and then stop... they run until they 
finish and then stop. You cannot control which script is currently running 
with cron; that is, you cannot *stop* a script with cron, you can only 
start it. Do you want the script to be run *every single minute*? How often 
do you want the script to be started?

Cheers,


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